K8V SE Deluxe - Safe Mode - How to access ?

[admiral_victory]

I have recently upgraded to an Azus K8V SE Deluxe m/b and was , today
, attempting to access Safe Mode on Bootup by trying both DELETE and
F8 on bootup but without success .

One of these keys ( I forget which one ) gets me into a Blue Screen
which asks me to select a Bootup device and lists all the drives on
the PC ,(floppy drive, both hard drives, CD-ROM drive ...etc )

However , selecting on e of these merely gets the PC to boot back into
Windows.

Is there another key which has to be selected to Access Safe Mode with
this m/b ?

I have XP Pro SP2 .

B.N.

 

[John Hollingsworth]

I have recently upgraded to an Azus K8V SE Deluxe m/b and was , today
, attempting to access Safe Mode on Bootup by trying both DELETE and
F8 on bootup but without success .

One of these keys ( I forget which one ) gets me into a Blue Screen
which asks me to select a Bootup device and lists all the drives on
the PC ,(floppy drive, both hard drives, CD-ROM drive ...etc )

However , selecting on e of these merely gets the PC to boot back into
Windows.

Is there another key which has to be selected to Access Safe Mode with
this m/b ?

I have XP Pro SP2 .

B.N.

Normally in your case, you press F8 to access the bootable devices, select
and ENTER, then *immediately* press F8 again. That always works for me.

John

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[RonK]

If you are using a usb keyboard, try with a ps2 keyboard.

If your keyboard is a multimedia or office type, make sure the function key
for the Fkeys is in the right position.

 

[Mike]

Normally in your case, you press F8 to access the bootable devices, select
and ENTER, then *immediately* press F8 again. That always works for me.

John

I also get the option to select a boot device if F8 is pressed, the answer is
simply to press F5 instead of F8

ie.
Pressing F5 will also bring up the safe mode selection screen.

HTH

Mike

 

[John Hollingsworth]

Normally in your case, you press F8 to access the bootable devices,

select >and ENTER, then *immediately* press F8 again. That always works
for me.

John

I also get the option to select a boot device if F8 is pressed, the
answer is
simply to press F5 instead of F8

ie.
Pressing F5 will also bring up the safe mode selection screen.

HTH

Mike
[/QUOTE]
So it does - never noticed that before!

John

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[admiral_victory]

Normally in your case, you press F8 to access the bootable devices, select
and ENTER, then *immediately* press F8 again. That always works for me.

Thanks - that gets me into the Safe Mode OK .

When , however , I select "Safe Mode With Command Prompt" and then get
into the Windows dirctory and type "DIR /p" I don't see any of the
Uninstall Folders shown.

These are of the form "$NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$" when viewed in Windows
Explorer.

I notice that the first two <DIR>'s shown in the WINDOWS Folder are
indicated by one full stop and then two full stops .

Are these the Folders containing the Uninstall stuff ? If so , how are
they accessed ?

B.N.

 

[John Hollingsworth]

select >and ENTER, then *immediately* press F8 again. That always works
for me.


Thanks - that gets me into the Safe Mode OK .

When , however , I select "Safe Mode With Command Prompt" and then get
into the Windows dirctory and type "DIR /p" I don't see any of the
Uninstall Folders shown.

These are of the form "$NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$" when viewed in Windows
Explorer.

I notice that the first two <DIR>'s shown in the WINDOWS Folder are
indicated by one full stop and then two full stops .

Are these the Folders containing the Uninstall stuff ? If so , how are
they accessed ?

B.N.

Don't know offhand, but you would normally access them via Control
Panel/add&remove programs in normal mode.

Sorry.

John

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[Mike]

Thanks - that gets me into the Safe Mode OK .

Easier to use F5 to get into safe mode with this board as in my earlier posting.

When , however , I select "Safe Mode With Command Prompt" and then get
into the Windows dirctory and type "DIR /p" I don't see any of the
Uninstall Folders shown.

These are of the form "$NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$" when viewed in Windows
Explorer.

More than likely they have the hidden attribute set! Use the Attrib dos
command to unhide them.
Type Attrib /? for info on how to use.

I notice that the first two <DIR>'s shown in the WINDOWS Folder are
indicated by one full stop and then two full stops .

The single period . is in fact the previous directory and .. is 2 directories.

Try it... go into a directory and the type cd. (1 dot) it will take you back up
the tree one directory level, 2 dots after the cd command will take you 2 levels
or back to the root directory if only 1 level deep.

We use to use shortcut commands such as this when dos was king.

Are these the Folders containing the Uninstall stuff ? If so , how are
they accessed ?

No...they are just index markers to previous directories. see above.


HTH

Regards

Mike

 

[admiral_victory]

HTH

It does and thanks to you and all the others who've replied.

Since posting this thread here I've received advice from another
source and have now managed to delete the Folder in question by
staying in Windows , r.cl. on the Folder , selecting
Properties>Security tab , then , giving myself Full Permissions , was
this able to delete the Folder in question.

Hope this also helps others.

B.N.

 

[m.marien]

These are the Windows update uninstall directories. The KBxxxxxx refers to
the Knowledge Base for the update.

The single period . is in fact the previous directory and .. is 2
directories.

Correct - almost. cd . will get you nowhere. The single stop is the current
directory. The double stop is the previous (parent directory). Same thing in
unix/linux. To run a command in the current directory you have to use
../command.

 

[Mike]

Correct - almost. cd . will get you nowhere. The single stop is the current
directory. The double stop is the previous (parent directory). Same thing in
unix/linux. To run a command in the current directory you have to use
./command.

You are of course absolutely correct.... ah well I was nearly right..heheh

Bit of old age creeping in I'm thinking. ie. brain storm! ))

Mike

 

[m.marien]

You are of course absolutely correct.... ah well I was nearly
right..heheh

Bit of old age creeping in I'm thinking. ie. brain storm! ))

Mike

It sticks in my mind because of a bug in the old Windows 3.0 File Manager.
If you selected the entire directory (ctrl A) to delete, it recursively
obeyed the stop stop. In other words, when it finished deleting the current
directory, it moved to the parent and continued there. Those were exciting
days days when that happened. Perhaps stop stop is the wrong term to use as
it didn't work that way at all.

They don't show the dot or dot dot in most GUI file managers anymore. An
interesting bug in Firefox. Go to any ftp site and double click the "Up to
higher level directory" and few times. Then check the URL.